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    ALIENWARE, high end gaming computers, is what you need. a bit pricey but good.
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    I have figured out that if printing to PDF and in color, you need to make your fill lines on the black side, color wise, to get them to print correctly or they disappear.
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    BTW, if you move your camera out of a room just hit f5 to turn them back on.
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    Yes , it is possible. The problem is that Chief doesn't cut the rafter off at the ceiling line like it should.
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    here is a short video on how to make 2 walls occupy the same space http://screencast.com/t/5oAalyvwV
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    Did you make the 1/2 wall a "No room def" wall, then slide it into place I have been doing that for many years.
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    Scott, you did a great video on this a while back, it's a bug for sure and needs to be fixed.
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    You can use 2 walls, one F.H. glass wall, that a door will work in, and a 1/2" railing wall set to have "no room definition" on top of each other also. two walls in one space. Several ways of doing it.
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    Hows that, I haven't found a way. The framing sticks down below the ceiling every time. raising the wall does nothing for me. 2 different rafter sizes like 2x6 and 2x10 just don't work from inside aliging the tops. all I'm saying is the rafters do not align at the ceiling height.
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    Stop the world, I'm getting off.
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    Sometimes the new 2x8 will stick though the ceilings in a room camera view b/c the program won't cut the rafters at the ceiling line. If that happens just turn off the rafters in that camera view.
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    yes it has to be a 1/2 railing wall to work with using a wall cap
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    I needed to get up to speed fast, so I took a couple of weekend classes.
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    I do them all the time, they just don't know how to do it correctly.
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    I actually purchased Softplan until I came across Chief, and have been with Chief ever since over 10 years ago. It was a better program to learn, Softplan was all over the place for me, and could just never learn it easily.
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    Sometimes you can use the top rail using tile, or a p-solid.
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    I really need room planner to export the dimensions ,always on, with the plan or I'll never know if something changes, and for the archive I need to keep of existing measurement's, without that I just can't use it for as-builts.
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    Lew , that's what Rrescheck does, the heating and a/c loads and all energy things and Chief exports to it easily.
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    That's a nice one Ray
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    I think that Rescheck works with Chief as an, export from Chief and import to Rescheck, of course, here in California we can't do it, we have our own separate energy program and can't export from Chief. Rescheck is a free nation wide program, except for Calif.
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    Roof lines are too basic for a custom home. When the roof lines are basic then the inside will also be basic. It would take some thought time to get it smoking hot. You can do a lot by changing the roof lines vertically. Good luck
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    Yes, they are macro's that come with the program. Just put them in the room label defaults
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    That's why I have floor and ceiling heights in my room labels, you can see what happened right away.
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    I think he is talking about the metal inserts, you just need to slide it forward and place a pass-through, for the opening.
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    It doesn't have anything to do with trusses, but it tells the program how to build the trusses which you must do manually, you can always force a re-build of any truss by checking the box.